Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Time is a universal regressor, time will prove everything

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.