Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

Over 100,000 people attend my shows each season and no one can say they haven't heard the Gospel.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?