"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

"I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived, 'cause there ain't no black man that can remember all the words to the Star-Spangled Banner."

"I'm a tree. I'm a tree. I'm a tree."

"I told him, 'I'm not going to fight you, you ugly bear.'"

"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…"