[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

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.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

My heart only knows love.

The Son of Man is the Mediator of God and humanity.

You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.