Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Positive thoughts dramatically alter the direction of your life.

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.