Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

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.

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

Honor commerce as the engine of change.