I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn't have become the person I was always meant to be. ~ lw

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.