“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”

“The greatest treasure of all the things in the world is to love and to be loved”

“Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”

“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”