“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Berthold Auerbach

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”     Leo Rosten

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”           William James