Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.