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"Staying enthused about finding things; discovering new beauty in the world that can translate into music. That's the most precious sort of resource. You have to pull stuff from outside of the musical realm. Whatever muscle it is that it takes to listen to music and stay focused, in me, is really strong."
"What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing."
"I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation."
"Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit."
"Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people."
"Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left."
"They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world."
"Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed."
"That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way."
"No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals."
"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."
"The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is"
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
"My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world."
"The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought."
"This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation."
"Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself."
"Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth."
