All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

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.

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

Omit the non-essential.

Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.