Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

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.

Never let your fears hold you back. Fears are not easily overcome but when you take the time to be brave it is worth the struggle.

Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.