“Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.”

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

I don’t make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don’t today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we’re heading.

Sexual healing is good for me.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Natural fact is, I can’t pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Don’t play with something you should cherish for life.

I want to stop and thank you baby, how sweet it is to be loved by you.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Mercy, mercy me, things ain’t what they used to be.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit.

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we’ve got an awful lot to learn.

I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Only taking the best evidence available at the present time,

We live in the best of all possible worlds.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.

The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they’re the best intelligence gatherers in the world.

We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.