That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.