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

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

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.

Fun things are fun.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

I think people do have their own minds.