B.B. King Quotes

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.

We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.