The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.