I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.