[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.
People say to me all the time, "Oh, you do such a good job unifying the House Democrats. " I say, "I don't. Our values unify us. We are unified with our commitment to America's working families about job creation, about budget policies that invest in the future, good-paying jobs. "
I love bells, clocks, watches - and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.