Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

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.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

My mom and my shows is not a good mix. She came one time and I'm not letting her come again!