"I'm gonna whup him so bad, he's gonna need a shoehorn to put his hat on."

"When you are as great as I am, it is hard to be humble."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I ma…"

"I was the first to refuse the draft. I was the first to speak out against the Vietnam War. I was the first to call the white man the devil."

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."