In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

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.

So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.

Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.