Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

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

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.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Everyone around you becomes kind and loving when you express your kindness and beauty of love.

Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.

Having a partner definitely allows you to take more risks.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is an expert housekeeper. Every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.