A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

We are powerful beyond imagination.

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.

I like people with weak will and bad taste.It feels like anything is possible.

God helps them that helps themselves.

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.