I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

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.

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.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.