You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

Never judge the life of another man.

You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.

Never forget, I love you just as much on your worst day as I do on your best day.

Technology is your friend... When it works.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.