How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat.

Coming up with a ballpark figure on how much you need to pay your expenses, such as your mortgage or rent, insurance, and utilities, is the first place to start when developing your ultimate goal of becoming a multimillionaire.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.