I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have and I don't mean Diana Ross I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist as did Oprah.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom because she wants to save the world and help the world so I am just like her.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and again making all crime mean and ugly.

Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.

It is not doing the thing we like to do but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge in the mind of any man that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord let his profession of religion be what it may.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah may He he glorified has placed hidden secrets which they are forbidden to reveal.

Mr. Speaker we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11 and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

My life has been a gift up to this point and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.