I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

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.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.