Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.