I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Mahatma Gandhi

It's clever, but is it Art?

Rudyard Kipling

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.

Princess of Wales Diana

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Cassandra Clare

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain, speech, November 23,

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Bob Dole

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. Ecclesiastes 2:24

Bible

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Susan Orlean

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

John Green

At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.

Steve Maraboli

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach