In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing. . . his very gestures express enchantment.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Live life to the fullest. It's too bad we're not cats. . . we only have one life.
To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.