You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.