“Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.”

I’m happy with the amount of success I’ve achieved. I feel like I’m getting better every day and I’m always learning. I don’t take anything for granted and I’ve gained a deeper perspective on things.

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.