Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The business of government is justice.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.

Always talk to God, never listen to the cops.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

All I have is natural ability.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.