The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.