“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

“Nothing is impossible.”

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”