A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

You cannot fool an audience.

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.