If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

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.

Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.

If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.