There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Every Friday is black where I work.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.