Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'

The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. IS considered the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.