I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

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.

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou.

I was just thrown out of the barista parlor. Came to close to the Slayer. Amazing place!

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.