"Whoever degrades another degrades me...." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

“Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.”

“I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;But I saw they were not as was thought;They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.”

“Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.”

“I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals”

“Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.”

“If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.”

“I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother”

“A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.”