What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.