The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
There was an old man with a beard, who said: ‘It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
People ask ‘do you make a conscious effort not to swear?’ – if you’re doing silly stuff you’re not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven’t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
I’m not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I’m definitely an individual.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
As somebody who happens to be gay, I particularly resent that minorities are being encouraged to be fragile and bitter.
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
First and foremost, it’s my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‘right’ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don’t support you.
