The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.