I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.