The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

