"No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits."

“My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.”

“Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.”

“Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard,”

Source : Frances Hesselbein (2013). “More Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

“There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks.... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them... Decent people lost their jobs.... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.”

“The only real problem in life is what to do next.”

“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”

Source : Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

“People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson”

“I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, 'And you're getting the tube?' And I said, 'Yes'. And she said, 'Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, 'No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.”