I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

I used to play golf. I wanted to be a better player, but after a while I realized I'd always stink. And that's when I really started to enjoy the game.

Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.

And Dilmore seems to be ignoring us again.” Tria says

Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

The beet must be uprooted.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.