People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Ted Turner

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

Ivo Andric

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jane Austen

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Emma Goldman

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fa?ade of his appearance.

Iris Murdoch

The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Francis Bacon

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Michael Jordan

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Bobby Darin

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

Claude Vorilhon