Do unto others as you would have them do to you. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. Be kind, for every one you meet is fighting a battle. And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.
Music is a revelation, a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within it the image of a cathedral. It is not enough to stare up the steps we must step up the stairs. The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, it is the man without a dream. Nobody gets to live life backward. No one can walk backward into the future.