Each moment presents what happens.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

When I wait for only half a second, it all makes worth waiting for, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansWorldpoet 546September 1, 2016

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

Dimitri: "Don't look at me like that." Rose: "Like what?" Dimitri: "You've got this look on your face that says you think I'm delusional, but you're too nice to say anything.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.