Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

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.

The true poem rests between the words.

A sword needs a sheath, heh, and a wedding needs a bedding.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.