"You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?"

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future."

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way."

"I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."

"Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth."

"They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them."