Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.

I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.