The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds.

After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another!