The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.

The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Take me down to the bar! We'll drink breakfast together!