The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

Kindness is still the best antidote.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.

Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.