I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.