Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.

There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet feels that he has not acheived anything. The second level is someone who, though he has not done anything, knows that he has not corrected anything in this world. This is good, and there is hope for him that he might correct his ways. However, someone who is righteous in his own eyes deceived himself all his life; his good deeds will be lost.