“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”

“I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”

“My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a...”

“All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.”

“United we stand, divided we fall.”

“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”

“Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.”

“My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, bu...”

“I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.”

“Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.”