Whatever you want, you can make things happen.

Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.