The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

No one will recognize you unless you had done a thing.

Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.