Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.