In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

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.

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.