Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Learn to. . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.
I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and. . . Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go. . . now there's less of those folks around, sadly.