If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.

I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.

You've got to destroy a few lives on the way to where you want to get.

Listen, you listen to the work and you decide whether you want to support it. But don't ask me why I'm doing it, because I really do not know the answer.

Don't pull your love out on me baby.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Live, for this is the time of your life.