"I tried. But not everybody thought so."

"Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life."

"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."

"To find people who don't want anything is rare."

"I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream."

"I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts."

"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."

"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."

"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."

"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."

"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven."

"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."

"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

"Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."

"On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired."