Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.