From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I came to singing organically.

Always take an inventory of your life

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

You're gonna notice me when I come in. I'm gonna make a statement without opening my mouth, and when I leave, you're gonna remember that.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.

As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem