To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

But sometimes that can make a girl so much more appealing. The beauty who doesn't know she’s beautiful.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That's the beauty of the Internet Age.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.