There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning