Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career.

Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."

I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt control over our government.

Love wins when everything else will fail.

Very sad to hear the news about George Michael. An incredible talent who brought joy to millions of us with his music.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.