If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

There is no friendship, without forgiveness.

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.

The angels can sometimes come as wordless words as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again...

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.