You're going to be a great player, kid.

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.

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.

What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again. She wasn’t a bad person, but she might was well be.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

It is your friends who make your world.