The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.