There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them.

Prayer is a royal power.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.