“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.