Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

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.