It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

Our healing is in His hands".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

End of a dream is the beginning of a new dream

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.