I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.