» Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
» I have not yet begun to fight.
» My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
» Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
» Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.
» If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.
» Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
» If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
» The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
» Leaders are readers.