Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.