The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

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

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.