Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.
Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.
It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend Never communicating with the one who lives within.
Friendship is usually treated. . . as a tough. . . thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.
I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.