The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from memory.

But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably, ” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.

Wherever you are remember that you represent Christ

And if not now when?

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.