It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.