Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.