We need a new approach to national security
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'. . . it's an adventure.
I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured. . . At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.