Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.