If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.
The right time is always right now.
If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.
Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another. . . There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Anything that helps us know ourselves more deeply, love ourselves more fully, improve our social connections with family and friends, and engage us more completely with the earth, animals, and environment, is a good resource for healing.