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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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

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.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.