The dream has been shattered, and I have had my nightmarish experiences, but I tell you this morning once more that I haven't lost the faith.

If you don't dream big, there's no use of dreaming. If you don't have faith, there's nothing worth believing.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.