The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.

God does not stereotype. Each of us is made magnificently unique.

A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.

Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.

I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.

Enrich the world with your presence.

You may enrich the world in a million different ways.And you may enrich the world, simply, with your presence.

The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility in the difficult times than by your compatibility in the better times.

Your business is your life.And your life is your business.

To be a success, be yourself.

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.