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.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Our intention creates our reality.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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

You’ll see it when you believe it.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Little things affect little minds.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.