And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed for your weaknesses, but it matters that you correct them. So pride and shame don't make a lot of sense, in the final analysis, but they weren't much fun anyway.
No, I have something else between my legs.
No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.