If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Tree is tree.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

You die in the middle of your life.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

My work is about helping humanity.

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'