Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners.

The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.