I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after

The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

A very honest woman but something given to lie