If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.

You may run from the calling, but, you will find no real peace until you fulfill your destiny.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.