“Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don’t live it you don’t have it.”

Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

When you got your hand in the lion’s mouth, don’t do nothin’ til you get it out.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.

Renunciation – that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.

First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.