“You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget al...” — Aretha Franklin Quote

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

Common sense often makes good law.

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.