I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
To retire is to die.