We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and more. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker. 

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Many of life's failures are people who don't realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.  

If you are overconfident, you may learn things the hard way.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. 

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.