When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

I beseech you to open your hearts and give back! Give your time/services/money/support/encouragement/love! Give whatever you can!

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.