Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers.

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

Any time that we have time to take off, we love being home.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.