I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. ... May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

If I can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.