“Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.”

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.

Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!’ And I know what happens every single time.

I see the other players dressing different every day. I’ve got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I’m really embarrassed.

In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York,

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.

Every time you think a thought it ‘registers’, and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.