Japan fended off the European invasions almost entirely. That’s why Japan is the one area of the Third World that developed. That’s striking. The one part of the Third World that wasn’t colonized is the one part that’s part of the industrialized world. That’s not by accident.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

If you’re wondering why I was only nominated for three of the categories tonight, it’s because I don’t swallow.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment.

Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker’s next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

For anyone who feels the need to hate, just know I’m looking at my phone like #GirlBye!

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

You could go out and eat and come back and the note would still be playing.