"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."

"The beauty of the unknown is that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

"All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!"

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."