I did a concert. . . in September with the Berlin Philharmonic. . . They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of inequality is unsustainable. We need an economy that works for all, not just the powerful.
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.