We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.