Leonard Bernstein

The truest way to be happy is to make others happy.

Music is the most profound way of expressing what it means to be human.

The best music is that which is most true to itself.

The human spirit is indomitable.

The greatest artists are those who are most human.

Music is a way of life, a way of being, a way of feeling.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The greatest joy in life is to be needed.

The human heart is a very resilient thing.

To be a musician is to be a communicator.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

What is music? It is the sound of the universe.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

We are all connected. We are all one.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.

To be human is to be flawed.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.