It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

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.

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.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Your opinion of me is nothing more than a made up illusion of what you want me to be in order to justify your own insecurities.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS