If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I had a dream about you. We were married and I walked into the room to see you in my new black dress and high heels and I said "That's not what I meant when I said I bought them for you".

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

"I'm Black". I think that's the best song I ever made in my whole life.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.