To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.