I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. Use this quote
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. Use this quote
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. Use this quote
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack. Use this quote
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. Use this quote
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Use this quote
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence. Use this quote
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. Use this quote
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Use this quote
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. Use this quote
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. Use this quote
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. Use this quote
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment. Use this quote
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. Use this quote
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. Use this quote
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. Use this quote
Being in the studio is a really romantic time. Use this quote
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Use this quote
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Use this quote
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Use this quote
