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

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 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.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Life lessons cannot be applied topically.

Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.

Avoid anger

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.