Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That’s also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If you need a miracle, be a miracle.
The union organizers are asking us to sit still while it sells our men the jobs that have always been free.
The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.
Music is the shorthand of emotion
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
I like the music. I love it and live it in fact, but for me the business part just plain stinks.
It is beyond imagining in responsible circles that we might have some culpability for mass slaughter and destruction, or owe some debt to the millions of maimed and orphaned, or to the peasants who still die from exploding ordnance left from the U.S. assault…
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay.
Riches are for spending.
I still find trusting people quite hard. I’ve got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that’s it. It’s something I’ve got to sort out-I cut people off.
