Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

It starts with vision, and the clarity of vision

I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.