If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.