The world is teeming; anything can happen.

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.

In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.