My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I smile.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.