We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.
Do not think about whatever service you may have done for others; think about what you may have done to offend them. Don't forget what others have done for you; forget what others have done to offend you.
There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train,'