After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement, especially walking behind it.

Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married.

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

Never be shamed of being Afrikan