The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Life and art are not two different things.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.