Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Progress can’t be achieved without investing in and constantly improving yourself.

Fight for the beauty in your life

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right.

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause