We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

Israel, Palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the hardest deal there is to make. People are born with hatred, they're taught hatred.

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

No one provokes me with impunity.

The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.