I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

I feel your pain. My vibrator needed batteries.

The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.

Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else.

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.