Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.

The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person.

People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.