She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

[T]he great end of education . . . is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Love is an immortal lie!

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?