"We are never so helpless as when we are at the mercy of our own desires."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"I do not mean to say that my life has been a succession of pleasant surprises, and that I have never had a hard time. But my experience has taught me that the pain of the wound is not always measured …"

"Blindness and deafness are not the worst misfortunes. The worst misfortune is to have eyes and ears, and not to see and hear."

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it."