Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I had a fear of being alone.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

Everyone has got something to give.

With extra patient, realities will enfold.

We have all encountered some failures in our life, but some people became failures because they perceived theirs to be permanent.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

Art is the questioning of culture

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.