You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright