You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

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.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I have three kids, one of each.