Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

[He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying] I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.