"Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education"

"Music is my religion"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real"

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"