Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

It’s the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.