They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Family is more important than anything.

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

These young people are going to change the world.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

Those that reach their goals perish.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.