Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

An index is a great leveller.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

I’ve said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I’m against ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and that we’re going to end this policy.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.