This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

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.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.

The main thing right now is just going out and having fun. I know what I want to do. If I go out and have fun and relax, then all my goals should come true.