Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

Only art of intrinsic value is suitable for children! Everything else is harmful.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.