Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

The best richness is the richness of the soul

Anxiety is who people want you to be. Calm is who you are.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas.

A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.