Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.