It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.

You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

America will never move forward if you decide to leave a nation of people behind.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

I think it's important for people to just stay encouraged, and stay uplifted.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.