Time is long but life is short.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

I knew it was all or nothing.

Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.