The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
We're lost, but we're making good time
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.