Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.