There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.

Without the dark side you would never see the light side of the stars

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

The Seeker needed a nice long lifetime eating sunshine.

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting