Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.