A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

Please all, and you will please none.

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

I've never doubted my ability.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.