I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

Why are you walking through the wood alone?

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

The first black president will be a politician who is black.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.