"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."

"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

"Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

"I hope to inspire people, influence people."

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

"They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on."

"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."