The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

I have composed too much.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Mozart is sunshine.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Every book should have a romance.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

I am especially fond of you.