But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.
Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.
Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh. ' My question is:' Why wait?
Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.
The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.
In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.