[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

Let go of your past. Start making history!

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.