To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

The law of attraction says that like attracts like, and when you think and feel what you want to attract on the inside, the law will use people, circumstances and events to magnetize what you want...

When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.