I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

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.

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.

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 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.

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Will you get off me!" "But I'm giving you CPR-" "I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. "Don't even think about it.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.