Isaac D'Israeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.