Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Prayer is a phenomenal tool for power, prudence and prosperity.

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

I play the piano and write music.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.