Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.

Walter Payton

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

John Milton

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Jon Meacham

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

Nicolas Cage

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.

Blaise Pascal

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.

Mark Evans

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Proverbs 11-24

Bible

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Bo Bennett

The result of what Kennedy did can be understood by analogy. It is as if he created a building named, 'A man on the moon in ten years,' and inside the building he put offices for all the various ideas, positions, notions and people that had to do with space flight. The first office inside the front door of the building in 1961 would have been called, 'it can't be done.' This office would have been inhabited by the skeptics and the cynics.A content or position is threatened by any opposite position. Given two opposing positions, only one can survive. On the other hand, a context gives space to, it literally allows, it even encourages, positions that are apparently the opposite. In fact, the most important position in a newly-created context is the position which appears to oppose the context.

Werner Erhard