“Half my life is in book's written pages.Live and learn from fools and from sages.”

“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”

“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”

“Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .”

“Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.”

“Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.”