Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

I am a voracious reader myself. I don't stick to one genre. My only criteria is that it's a good story. I try to bring that to my work because I think people can read your excitement about a story.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.