The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel)

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.