“There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.”

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused.

I’m believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth.

It’s up to to you to perfect that gift that you’ve been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

Time is long but life is short.

There’s a Place in the Sun, where there’s hope for everyone.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn’t sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Don’t need cars cause we’ve learned to fly on Saturn.

The way the world is right now, we need more love.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

Hate knows that love is the cure.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.