I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

You gotsta love all God's children!

Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.

Never stop reminding yourself that God created you to be mentally and physically tougher than your struggles, challenges and obstacles.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths

I plead for leniency. I understand that the road to redemption is going to be long for me.

We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.