Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

To love is the supreme right of the human heart.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

ISIS represents the worst threat to freedom since Communism!

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.