Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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.

The highest prayers lift you out of the lowest places.

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.

I don't have 30 days and 30 nights to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer...than Scott Steiner.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.