For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.

And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

Whatever is unknown is magnified.