I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I'm an honest hoe, and all my hoes is honest.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.