Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

Thinking new things is the best way to exercise the mind.

Trust Him in the Deep Waters! ~Jessica R. Patch author of Deep Waters.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

I just get on with my game and let the referees do their job.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.