There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Everything that we design is designing us back

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Awe is the best drug in the world

Suffocate despair with prayers.

Regretfully, but I have to admit that A. Einstein was right. -''Who?''. Oh, there was such a guy...

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

I don't live the single life and never really did.