When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.