If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.
A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Frienship is eros. . . without wings
Man is unable to accurately predict events which are but twenty-four hours distant; only the Divine Mind could have foretold the future, centuries before it came to be. Hence, we affirm with the utmost confidence, that the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies in the Bible attest and demonstrate the truth that the Scriptures are the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God.
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.
Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.