Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

You're not who I thought you'd be, Cas." "No?" "Your so much better.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.