The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything.

Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn't highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

I’m living now in my reward.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.