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

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.

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

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

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.