Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

You can't get to no better days Unless you make it through the night

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

There's a bridge to tomorrow, There's a bridge to the past.

Peter Martin’s artistry is nothing short of extraordinary. To sing with him is sublime – to listen to him play is a transcendent experience.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.