I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.