Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you'll know that I wasn't listening to what you said.

Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.