“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
“A dog is not "almost human", and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.”
“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”
“The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude--they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.”
“And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?”