In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

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.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

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

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

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.

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