I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.

Don't be a bully, don't be meanBe a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.

I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad