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

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.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

What seems new is only new to us.