You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

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.

People are only rational on the surface.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.