Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

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.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

Tough times should serve only one purpose in your life

...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

The reson I don't own a cell phone is I like making plans and being free and being normal, the way everyone was back in the 80's. Kill your cell phone.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.