I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.

So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.

So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.

The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

When we fully realize who God is, we learn that each of us is a child of the King!

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

You see your preconceived ideas and your thoughts—not the reality.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business