Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

My whole life is about sound. It's what makes me tick as a human being.

Life is not fair; get used to it.