The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor

Everyone said they were witches. I desperately wanted to believe it.

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!