When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Songwriting is my gift from God

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Its a great day for hockey

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.