Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.