Once you discover that you can, you must.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

One single glance will conquer all descriptions.