The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove