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.

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.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Time the devourer of everything.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.

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

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.