“Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby.”

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

“Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. ”

“To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

“It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.”

“Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that, quite apart from accidents, even the span of a normal life that passes happily may be totally insufficient for such a ride.”

“My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.”