Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.

When you stand on top of that mountain and you look out, you will know that you will never again look back.

Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.

What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with tomorrow.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.