It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.