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

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."