Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Enthusiasm is life.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

You laugh, but you haven't seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don't like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.