Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.