You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

I don't know much about being a millionaire but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

The Bible isn't quick to give answers; it mainly gives the Answer.

The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.