It is idle to say that NATIONS can struggle to outdo each other in BUILDING armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last WAR to see the appalling effect of nations competing in GREAT armaments.

The sure conviction that we COULD if we WANTED to is the reason so MANY GOOD MINDS are idle.

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is IDLE as a SLEEPING MAN... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is GROUNDED upon the solidity of belief.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in HEAVEN and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 YEARS after seeing Take the Money and RUN, I was WORKING for him.

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite POPULAR ASSUMPTION of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a CHILD or TWO SOMEWHERE.

I will CALL out the LAZY, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the HARD WORKING, the industrious, and the law.

We have to REMEMBER that Dr. KING was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a MAN of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge US and exhort us.