And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."

Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.

Some astrophysicists have convinced themselves that the fifth significant figure of the fine structure constant has changed over the past ten billion years.

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

Trust is good, but control is better.