The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die.
I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
Hold what you've got and hit them where you can.
A kindness is never wasted
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions