No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
A man is a god in ruins.
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
Learning is finding out what you already know.