It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
Money is just an idea.
Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.
What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?
When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.