We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

I've never been ambitious about recording

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.