Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

I am made of universal love. I embrace my interconnected self and let it bring me joy.

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

family relationships have made me so ill!