Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music. . . I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.
Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.
You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough