"My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed"

"Music is my religion"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

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

"Diligence is the mother of good luck"

"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"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"