Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Spending time with mama is the best time I ever spent other than remembering Mighty Allah.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.