I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.