My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

It's not important to me that people understand me.

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

If I am cheated or betrayed, I will react.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.