A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing cause that's a way of understanding life.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

This be an empty world without the blues.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying.

Women always bring it back to the personal, ' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do, ' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.

I've been through a lot as far as love.

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?