Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

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.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

All you really have in the end are your stories.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.