I can't say no. But I did say, "OK. But have another song just in case."

The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.