The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful.

Wars begin in the minds of men and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

In fact because of this deep desire for peace the ruling class leaders of this land from 1945 on stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Nature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for regiment doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I'm a visual thinker really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics all of the weather statistics.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.