The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
America, the country of my heart, my second home.
The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.
Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
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?