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

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 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.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand.

When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, ‘Remember: be happy! The most important thing today is that you are happy!

He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.

Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.