Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.