Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.