I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

What am I?" she asked ..."You are mine, " he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

The black church will accept anybody.

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

Never let a crisis go to waste