For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.