Quotes from Stevie Wonder

Time is long but life is short.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

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

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.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

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

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

I've had threats.

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

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

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'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

The way the world is right now, we need more love.

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

Isn't she lovely made from love?

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.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

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.