Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

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.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

Syllables govern the world.

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

I can be maternal with my friends.

I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.