If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

My English is not very good-looking.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.