As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

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.

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you’ll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

I mostly built stuff that I liked.

Be nice until it becomes a habit. Give thanks like it is second nature.