I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

I'm an introverted sort of writer.

Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

His Christianity was muscular.

The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?

Being an Arsenal fan, at the end of every season I say the same thing: we've got a good team, a young team, hopefully, we'll be in the running for the league title next season.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)