My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

My son has died of AIDS.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I always wanted a family.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Better is the enemy of good.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

New roads; new ruts.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.