We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts, because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Nobody's as good as you when you do what you do. I need you to own the time that comes with that.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.