"The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"