What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

You'll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Greed can overtake smart.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.