They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

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.

Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

There's no home team in tennis, no built-in fan base, so the players have to step up and do their fair share.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.