Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

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.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

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