We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

I am happy that we have somebody like Lewis [Hamilton]. I also couldn't be like Lewis. I don't like gold jewelry!

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.