Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

We ought to love one another

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

Dream chasers are full of strength, are full of desire, are passionate and they cling unto their dreams until they produce life.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.