“ Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. ”

“ A picture is worth a thousand words. ”

“ I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ”

“ Music fills the infinite between two souls. ”

“ I am not a businessman, I am an artist. ”

“ Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ”

“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ”

“ Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. ”

“ But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ”

“ The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ”

“ Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. ”

“ If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances. ”