One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known, " but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.