Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder!

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.

Wenn du nicht darum bittest, bekommst du nichts.

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.

Wenn du glaubst, du bist die Nummer eins, beginnt dein Weg nach unten.

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.

Talent bringt dich möglicherweise an die Spitze, aber du brauchst Charakter, um dort zu bleiben.

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

Wir alle haben Talent. Wie wir es nutzen macht den Unterschied.

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.

Du kannst dein Leben nicht auf den Erwartungen anderer Menschen aufbauen.

Time is long but life is short.

Viele Dinge, die gerade passieren, zeigen uns, dass jetzt die richtige Zeit ist zu lieben.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

Bevor ich zu einem Betrunkenen ins Auto steige, fahre ich lieber selbst.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

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.

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.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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

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.

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

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

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

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.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

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.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

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

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

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.

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