When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.