"I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days"

"Music is my religion"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

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

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"