Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid

Happy are you who love for you are loved by God! Alleluia! Amen!

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?