I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better. But I don't wanna outshine her.

I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.