More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem