If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

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.

When you're in love you put up with things that when you're out of love you cite.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

I say to everyone within the sound of my voice, 'Do not fail the Lord'. We must accept the truth that the gospel principles are not on trial but that we are.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.