He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

This is a great building. They have a great leader in Jim Pauley and they have a great staff. And from what I saw, it looks like they have the makings of a great student body.

[Another friend is Jimmy Heath, who wrote a composition called] Without You, No Me, ... He said, 'Without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a Jimmy Heath.' I feel the same way, because without Dizzy there wouldn't have been a James Moody.

A retired gentleman called and said he was going to cook Thanksgiving for his ex-fiancée, who was from 30 years ago, ... They were rekindling over turkey dinner and he hadn't really cooked before.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.