If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

And death doesn't wait for you when your rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when your exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight

Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways.

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?