You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

I go to McDonald’s every day. But I don’t eat much.

Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

First and foremost, it’s going to be treat others with respect. Be polite: Manners go a long way. Try to come from a good place. And aside from that, stay focused and do the right thing.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.

Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.

I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.