For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

There is but one supremacy... and it remains known and unknown to it's human creation... of many hues, shapes and sizes.

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

Huge difference between being happy at will, and chasing euphoric moments as an escape. One doesn't cost a dime, the other will tax your soul.

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

Books are like bacon for the mind.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.