The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

You have to watch them all the time, ’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.