An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

::I am yours, beloved. As you are mine. For all of eternity…::

Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.