Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

If you dance to rhythm of music in your heart, you will restore your soul, and revive your spirit.

There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.