Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.