“There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.”

“Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.”

“When you experience the joy of bringing joy into someone else's life, then you know what joy is.”

“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice in the ability to express yourself, the feeling of playing, pushing yourself out into an open space through a sound, man. That's an unbelievable feeling, an uplifting feeling of joy to be able to express the range of what you feel and see, have felt and have seen. A lot of this has nothing to do with you. It comes from another time, another space. To be able to channel those things and then project them though an instrument, that's something that brings unbelievable joy.”

“as a well-spent day gives, joy in sleepso a well-spent life brings, joy in dying”

“The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.”