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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.