Behold my friends the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of their love!

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than obviously in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect no question about it but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races and in black and other minority men.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

As a black man my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all by God's Will united in spirit and in aim.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races but the happiness of common man.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.