For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

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 only thing that mattered to me, was the fact that I mattered to you.

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.