The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Everybody changes, not just me.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.

To create more positive results in your life, replace ˜if only' with next time.

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writers block.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.

Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

I love coming to Australia. It's one of my favourite places.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.