If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

If the past was what we were meant to see…then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

The end of art is peace.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.