“And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,”

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I don’t think I do have a soul.

What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.

If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show

I’m thankful for every moment.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.

Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.

I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.

And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

The waiting that people do in Turkey to get aboard one of these boats is incredible.

We’ve just kept the ship running y’know what I mean? You change engineers from time to time and as long as everybody coming aboard knows what direction the ship is, everything’s alright.

At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.