Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

We become what we habitually contemplate

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.