The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

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.

Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.

The love at Christmas should be with us throughout the coming year.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

The classics can console. But not enough.

I would not be able to retain all the information, all the medical jargon these doctors do. I'm not really intelligent enough is what I'm saying.

Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.