Duke Ellington

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

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.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.