Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

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.

It is the time that delivers greatness to people.

God speak to us through dreams, prayer and reading of Holy Bible.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.