I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

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.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

The only sin is pride.

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.