On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

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.

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.

What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said "I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.