I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life.

Abdu'l-Baha

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Carl Gustav Jung

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

James Russell Lowell

I am participating in the evolution of inspired action.

Steve Maraboli

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Cullen Hightower

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Dick Schaap

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln