We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

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.

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingDrowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

In every moment, know that the Lord's presence is always with you.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough