Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare confess it to themselves.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I am no one to be a purist.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.