The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.