One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

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.

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.

Spreading the Word of Christ and the Kingdom should be our goal as believers

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.