There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

It's either hip or it ain't.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

God is not a thing to be achieved, but a thing to be.

Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.