I don’t believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

Spontaneously composed music is a counterpoint that has its own rules based on a natural order and intuitive logic.

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

I am a big Jeff Richmond fan.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

There are some sick people in this world.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team, and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.