In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. 

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.