“I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.”

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.

I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.

Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.

No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.

If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.