The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

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 act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

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.

If you have to choose between your self-respect & ego and other person

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.