Quotes By Stevie Wonder

Time is long but life is short.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.