The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.

We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.