though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

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

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.