A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

It is better to do the will of God than seek your own ways.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

Clearly it is God's will to place me in such a predicament, " declared Philias loudly to a procession of stunned passers-by, "So God can jolly well point me towards salvation.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

I love Valentine's Day. When you're a kid everyone gets a Valentine. It's like 'TO TIM, NICE PANTS, LOVE SCOTT'. It's Valentines galore!

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.