A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

It's boring to be like everybody.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.