Maybe if I don’t cry, I won’t feel anymore.

I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

I managed to pick out some pretty special people.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.

Don’t carry a gun. It’s nice to have them close by, but don’t carry them. You might get arrested.

You read so much about China, you read so much about other countries, we have the great brain power right in this country, I’m proud to say. You’re certainly a member of that group.

I’ve signed breasts and bums. I’ve signed everything!

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

You get the best and the worst of both worlds. I know there were a lot of times when you try to figure out where you fit in. I just realized that it worked to my advantage because I just got along with a lot of people. But to literally be two races, it’s really hard to see color because I’m the gray area. I had to learn about both sides of myself and be really proud of and educated in both.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.