If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.

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.

You must choose to risk what you fear to lose to gain everything you desire

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

You have the privilege of presenting a picture of what heaven will be like to those around you.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

You're living up in Heaven, but I know you're mad as Hell.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.