I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.