It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

God loves all of us.

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

Always give more than what's expected.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

It's a little weird when people turn around and look at you, but I don't mind. I really don't think I've changed.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art