“One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.”

“My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.”

“So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.”

“Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.”

“In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”