She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Songwriting is my gift from God

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.