Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

We do not die with those we mourn.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!

The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.