Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

Howard Stern

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

George Matthew Adams

Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

Kurt Vonnegut

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Anna Quindlen

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Karl Von Clausewitz

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Phil Jackson