“Do you think people are born villains, or do they live long enough to fight for those they care for, those they love, before realizing what they become?”

“...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.”

“The number one, and probably most important,key to consistently doing what's right is actually quite simple-think before you act.”

“My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.”

“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.”

“Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.”

“...why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible”