Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

You gotsta love all God's children!

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no!

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind.

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.