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.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

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

Love dies only when growth stops.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.