“This piece is neither an endorsement nor an indictment of any leader, it’s just an open question!”

Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you’re going to fail, you probably will.

When I first met Nelson Mandela, I burst into tears. He is one of the greatest Heroes of my life.⁣

If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

Nothing beats that sibling love.

Find people who share your vision and your dreams and partner up.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it’s something that truly exists in all of us.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through – but they won’t be laughing when – they’re wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.

When Prayers go up, Blessings come down.

I can’t run away when I’m scared. I always have to attack. That’s how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn’t have been elected to anything.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

The issues in America are so big, and the problems are enormously complicated. But I am incredibly confident in Donald Trump to be able to execute on his promise to the people who elected him.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?