The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

America is another name for opportunity.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

To be a leader, you must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Forget about upholding the tradition and just play who you really are.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

Take the firearms first, and then go to court. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures, I like taking the guns early … Take the gun first, go through due process second.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.