No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

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.

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.