When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

I stay motivated no matter what.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.

But the true test of a church—and of a man—is not how good it looks, but the kind of impact it makes in the community.

Through thick and thin, drought and flood, good times and bad, even though there's opposition, even though things may not be working out the way we had hoped or planned, we have one goal in this one short life we live on planet earth: Do not lose focus. Serve the purposes of God.

let's commit to memorizing and meditating on 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One

Life supports what supports more of life

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.