Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

Patience is the absence of expectation.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.