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

There is no beauty without order.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.