Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

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.

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I dont wanna know. I don't wanna know.

Take this treasure, Leave one of your own, And remember this truth:You are not alone.

Reword and its an Innovation. Irony

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.