Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.