Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm