Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Value the people who value YOU.

If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.