Great Throughts Treasury

"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."

"When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person... In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love."

"When I was a kid, I was denied not only a childhood, but I was denied love. When I reached out to hug my father, he didn't hug me back. When I was scared on an airplane, he didn't put his arm around me and say, "Michael, don't worry. It's going to be OK." When I was scared to go on stage, he said, "get your ass on that stage." ? I will never deny a child love. If it means that I have to be crucified or put in jail for it, then that's just what they're going to have to do."

"When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true."

"When you're strong and good, then you're Bad."

"Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished."

"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."

"Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone, ... You say, 'You can have my bed if you want it. Sleep in it. I'll sleep on the floor. It's yours.' I always give the beds to the company."

"With such confusions, don't it make you wanna scream? Your bash abusing victimize within the scheme, you try to cope with every lie they scrutinize, oh, brother, please have mercy, 'cause I just can't take it! Stop pressuring me, just stop pressuring me, stop pressuring me, make me wanna scream."

"Yeah, I think James Brown is a genius you know, when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the cameraman because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "show him show him," so I could watch and learn."

"Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court,"

"You are the sun, you make me shine, or more like the stars, that twinkle at night. You are the moon that glows in my heart. You're my daytime, my night-time, my world... you are my life."

"You can always dream, and your dreams will come true, but you have to make them come true."

"You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come."

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

"You are not alone."

"Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried every day."

"You can't believe it, you can't conceive it, and you can't touch me, 'cause I'm untouchable, and I know you hate it, and you can't take it, you'll break me, 'cause I'm unbreakable."

"You can't hurt me, I found peace within myself."

"You give me fever from miles around. I?ll pick you up in my car and well paint the town."

"You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town."

"You'll never make me stay so take your weight off of me. I know your every move so won't you just let me be. I've been here times before but I was too blind to see that you seduce every man. This time you won't seduce me."

"You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable, still they hate you, you're a vegetable, you're just a buffet, you're a vegetable, they eat off you, you're a vegetable."

"You say that workin is what a man's supposed to do. But I say you ain't right if I can't give sweet love to you."

"You wanna show them that you're really not scared, you're playing with your life, this ain't no truth or dare, they'll kick you then they'll beat you then they'll tell you it's fair, so beat it."