My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.