Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.'

I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I’m gonna want to high five you in the face with a hammer before we reach New York.

Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything