Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

God is spirit

Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

Hidden behind your fears and your failures is the success you seek.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.