And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Alexier found that a dose of humility did wonders to one’s ability to grasp new ideas and, after all, it had been this very ability that made him the researcher he was today.

No one is destined for greatness. Everyone is just destined to express the greatness that already exists within.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.