the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.

The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.

Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.