The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.