Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

There is something about yourself that you don't know.

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Everyday something must be achieved inwardly.

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.