“The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.”

“He had every gift but the gift of years”

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

“States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights.”

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”

“Don't get mad, get even,”