I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.

Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

I'm so honored to have been a part of something so meaningful that helped to keep so many families and loved ones connected.

I enjoyed all of the tours and learned something from everyone.

Praying is simple. Use the words that you know. You don't have to be eloquent, just sincere and reverent.

I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.

I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

When you get lost in love, you become oblivious to oblivion.

I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player.