Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.