I really believe God has anointed me to have these talents so one day I'll be able to touch people all over this nation. Everybody doesn't want to be preached to all the time; sometimes they need to be played to or sung to.

A double on public land on the last day of the season. It was like God wanted it to happen. If that thunderstorm hadn't come and made that bird gobble, we would've come home empty-handed.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

[5. In his essay] Can Gold Producers Survive By Promoting Jewelry?, ... At the end of the day, to revive the fortunes of the gold producers, it is necessary and sufficient to restore gold as the choice of free markets and free people all over the world as money that doesn’t depreciate at home or abroad; as money that is as steady as the stars; as money that is as faithful as the tides or, as the American Federation of Labor put it at the turn of the last century: ’Gold is the standard of every great civilization.’

I was running on Saturday, the day after he passed away, and I went by a corner where we frequently met for our weekend runs. In the midst of my sadness, I couldn't help but smile, thinking of all the good memories I have of our many miles together.

Nowadays you have to worry about your children constantly each day, wherever they go. It is a crap shoot. But you try to protect your children as much as possible.