You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?