I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

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.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

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.