Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.
Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.
The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.
If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.
The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society. . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are. . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.
Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.