Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure

I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love dolls clothes

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.