I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

Joy is love exalted

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

Hillary Clinton gets rich making you poor.

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.