When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner.

I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler’s voice from behind me. ‘It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.

Drop everithing and read.

Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.