In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.