You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

A lot of people spend so much time trying to look rich, that they forget that the plan is to get rich.

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two.

I'm not a schmuck. Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won't lose a penny.

When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you think more positive, happier thoughts, they tend to increase in strength.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up" - Will

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

No human being can prevent you from giving. Because no human being controls God’s agenda.