I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

One or two steps alone do not guarantee the evidence of your success unless you have your own peculiar definition for success. And I assure you

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.