I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

The best thing about Valentine's Day is that if you don't have a lover, you badly remember to get one!

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.