Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.

How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.