From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.