I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
The Western model for a meeting is you have an agenda and you come in and everyone says things.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
There but for the grace of God, goes God.
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them. One of the things that separated me from Messiaen was my desire to create works with a big structure, a large symphonic sweep. His forms are wonderful, glorious mosaics, but again, I prefer narrative.
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.