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

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.

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

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.

Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them move into my house. Would you Helen? Would you really?

Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.