If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.