History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

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.

I think it's the curse of being creative, sadness is always your pal.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice?

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

I'm a goofball and a comedian.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.