All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Only boring people are bored.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it.

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

Being able to say goodbye is a sign of growth.

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.