If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Oh... Blip. Yeah, I see." He sounds distracted, awed. "Your child, " I whisper."Our child." He counters.

When you get older, you know that life’s mysteries are revealed in the fullness of time. All you have to do is wait, watch, and be amazed.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.