My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

New pain heals old pain.

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.