On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

We become what we habitually contemplate

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

I know some people who've gotten tattoos that they probably shouldn't have, like the name of somebody they were dating, and that never ends well.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

How did it make you feel?

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

Another name for peace is development.