In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

As long as there’s breath in You - PERSIST!

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

When a watch is broken you take it apart to analyze what is wrong with it. When a technique does not work, if you analyze it carefully you can always find out what is wrong.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.