Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

The best way of avoiding mistakes is doing nothing

They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'No, no, no,'

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

I realized what an artist is and what it is to be an artist.