You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

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.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

There are no perfect people - except of course my wife's first husband.

I'm for Israel's right to exist.

More blood! More blood!

There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.

I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.