I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

The problem with the world is that not enough nations are trying to emulate what Americans've done.

You're never going to learn everything.