We don't have all the answers. A few months ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now I know sometimes you have to just take life for what it is instead of worrying about what might happen.

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

What created your outer is your inner

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.