What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

It was true. She was his soul’s star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic.

Waves of my feelings are crossing the beach of my heart.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

I hate losing more than I like winning

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.