Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

I had a lump in my throat the size of a bundt cake pan.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

You’re mine, Isabeau. You’ll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and give us a second chance, or you don’t, you’ll be my only.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.