When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.

The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.