We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

We were born free.

I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!

The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

I read, therefore, I matter.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.