America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years so I must be doin sumthin right!

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.