There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

Taking decision and acting out our decisions leads to increase

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.