I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

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 cannot stay the way you are and go with God.

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.