Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.