Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

If poetry escapes my mouth then it shall seek comfort in your heart. Will you keep it safe?

They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy law.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.