To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

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.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.