Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

The pain of the journey should challenge you to make change, the vision of what could be drives you forward.

Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

Do you know what is God? – Life power undergoing various changes in the process of yoga as depicted, gets up in the Cerebrum – This is God.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.