“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.”

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.

The only thing power respects, is power.

I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.

We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.