If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.