Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

No, ” Shane said. “I’m not leaving you two here alone. We stick together.”“I’m still not kissing you, ” Michael said.“Tease.

Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?

Stop getting bitter that a lot of people don't believe in your dream. The manifestation of your dream only needs nobody else but yourself to believe in it and give it all that you got in you.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.