“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing – but when you’re looking back. Well, it amounts to everything.

Getting so deep in the process of creating the life I want for myself, so I’m turning out anything/ anyone that doesn’t align with my vision.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven’t known life to be any happier.