We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.