On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.