A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

I hope Mr. Obama has success.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.