Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

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

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.