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. – Pablo Casals
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? – Pablo Casals
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. – Pablo Casals
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. – Pablo Casals
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true. – Pablo Casals
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? – Pablo Casals
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. – Pablo Casals