Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. [....] The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs

...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine ... I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.