To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Creativity is like the light, the reason we see the light because the “switch” is on and the connection is made

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.