There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Much to the confusion of small-minded people, confidence does not equate arrogance.

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

The truth will only be told over a career.

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.