Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

I've served in 25 nations. I've seen where people don't trust their government. We're there. In the military, the last option is to send in the SEALs.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.