Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.