I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

“I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”

“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.”

“When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”

“We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

“The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil”

“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

“America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.” 

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.