Classic Quotes Collection

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.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

Until the 'Stand Your Ground' law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again.

We come together today to love on people that have been devastated by the hurricanes. When love goes into action, it preferences no color of skin, no ethnicity, no religious beliefs, no sexual preferences, and no political persuasions. It just loves.