Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.
Leonard BernsteinIt would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard BernsteinInspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
Leonard BernsteinIt is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
Leonard Bernstein