"My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over."

"Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum."

"President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

"I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness."

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class."

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."