When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.