No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe.

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

Stop worrying about your circumstances, God is already busy creating some brighter days for you. You definitely weren't brought here on earth to live as a failure.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.