The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I discuss humanity and not races.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?