I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.