I'm not a firm believer of "mo' money mo' problems" - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.