Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.

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.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Life is a matter of choices live it or lift it !

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

Mission is 'the mother of theology'.

There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.

Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart More often than declared in speech.