Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

I could never love where I could not respect

Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

John Foster Dulles

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them --their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Source Unknown

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious

Kurt Vonnegut

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Regina Spektor

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sometimes I look at this world and it moves me to tears. The joy and terror and the mad bloody drama of it all. I wonder why they never seem to really see it. Maybe one lifetime just isn't enough. Or maybe it's too much. I can't say. But the truth, to be perfectly plain, is that people are always looking for magic in all the wrong places.

Brian Holguin

No, I am your father.

Darth Vader

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Charles Dickens