As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle

The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way.

Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with family and friends.