If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

Life in the spirit is a saving grace.

Love Is Like A Plant.We Give It Attention, It Grows. We Ignore It, It Dies

I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.

You know what really keeps your staff on their toes? A harpoon gun.

There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good