Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation and it's connected to everything.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.