Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

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.

I believe it went like this—and stop me if I’m wrong, Mousey: ‘Listen, we may not be our own continent and everything, but we have a big country over in America too.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!