Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.