At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.

It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing

He's no Bill Clinton!

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.

My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad.

Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.

There is no perfection only life