“Gun violence is real. People don’t come back.”

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

Isn’t she lovely made from love?

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I’ve ever asked, as I’ve gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

You can’t hear me? Read my lips!

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

I’ve had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer.

Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.

First of all, I’m no better than the next person.

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Intrusive thoughts burn holes in my brain. I guess that’s why I’m so empty.

Old habits die hard, so fill up my cup and let’s raise hell in heaven.

I don’t like to stop. I believe when you stop, you die.

Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

Double chin, Fat Thighs. Will you think about these things before your last breath?