To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.