“art is worthlessunless it plantsa measure of splendor in people's hearts”

“And so it has taken me all of sixty years to understand that water is the finest drink, and bread the most delicious food. and that art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts.”

“Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the music created from the heart and by the wonder of the eyes and ears beholding them in joy. Art and music are the windows of the soul of any country. The greater the art created, the greater the country.”

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”

“Hatred had blossomed from the vine of contempt in his heart, flowers of dark, grim splendor.”

“To measure the man, measure his heart.”