"These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer."

“The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.”

“Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor, or did you just sit down and cry?”

Source : "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)". Song by Alan Jackson, November 26, 2001.

“There's no sauce for play like work.”

“Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.”

“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

Source : "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.

“I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.”

“There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A.M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.”

Source : "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

“The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.”