Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

No one is nothing. Everyone has a place and a purpose. Some choose their purpose and others have it thrust upon them but no one is useless. Everyone is someone. The world has use for us all.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. [It costs more to do ill than to do well.]

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.