Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

I have no dating life.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.