I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.

Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.-Chiron

You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.