Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

God predetermine the path for each sacred soul.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?""By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

If you're into metal, then you should like hair metal!

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.