Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

The day of birth is a miraculous day.

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.