When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

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.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Knowledge is of more value than gold

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.