Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Chicks can make you flip more than any drug would.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

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At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.