I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Don't ever apologize for us.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

I am what you call a hooligan-

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.