I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

First you harmonize, then you customize.

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

They surrounded him here, but beyond, flames licked the cabins, the incendiary glow striking a similar spark inside him from the injustice they’d faced tonight.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.