Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Lose your soul in God's Love... I swear there is no other way !

I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.