I have two loves: my country and Paris.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

When you are one with loss, the loss is experienced willingly.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.