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.

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.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Time the devourer of everything.