The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

For every why he had a wherefore.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

The more experiments you make the better.

As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I’ve missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I’ve never done that. If I’m booked to play, I go and play.

This thing is really silly. I don’t want to hurt you anymore, and I’m too powerful for you to hurt. I forgive you for all the times you’ve f*cked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f*ck me in the future.

If I’m not a jazz player all the time, I’ve at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Thunder only happens when it’s raining; players only love you when they’re playing.

A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Trump Steaks, where are the steaks? Do we have steaks? We have Trump Steaks.