There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

Well if I could play like Wynton Marsalis, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

You don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language’s most offensive C-word.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.

Don’t make me put your head in my blender!

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

I am the hero of Africa.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

With Almagro, boy, that’ll be a tough match. He’s playing at a very high level right now and he hits the ball hard.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.