Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

Stories happen to those who tell them.

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.