You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you become all you see!

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.