In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.