If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?

That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to understand

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.