A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

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.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.