I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.