I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
On seeing one thing, you see all things. On perceiving an individual's mind, you perceive all mind. Glimpse one truth, and all truth is present in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the Truth.
Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life at 45. . . I didn't know this exercise thing felt so good.
You got to keep your hand in your craft, otherwise you can rot at the roots and first thing you know, you got nothing.
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
There's no such thing as a bad photograph.
The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.
Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.
It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.
The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.