"When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily."

-- John Wooden

“Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.”
“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”

Source : "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.
“The hardest thing for me is walking. Can you imagine you've got a metal pole and if you put pressure on it like a strong walk, you can walk.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 20, 2007.
“Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.”
“America! America! God shed His grace on thee.”

Source : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
“In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
“You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.”

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