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

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.

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.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.