If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Don’t lose the positive power to make right choices that will convert your tears into smiles.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.