In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!