Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

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

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. 

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.