Duke Ellington

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.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.