I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.