When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.
The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God. ' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.
Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre. . . keys to the heart. ' That just about says it all.
Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.