But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.