Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.
Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.
I'm an American before any party preference.
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
He who reaches all his goals has probably not chosen them high enough.
Insane for your sweet, sweet love!
Any man with money to make the purchase may become a dog's owner. But no man --spend he ever so much coin and food and tact in the effort-- may become a dog's Master without consent of the dog. Do you get the difference? And he whom a dog once unreservedly accepts as Master is forever that dog's God.