And I will make it felony to drink small beer.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.