Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.