Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.