It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Life and art are not two different things.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

Is evolution just another name for God?

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.