A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Yeah? For what paper?
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.
I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best Ive ever done it.
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.