“Practice yourself what you preach.”

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Nature teaches more than she preaches.

Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.

My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.