“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

To love or have loved, that is enough.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.