Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.