Archived Quotes

Everyone needs to be valued.

Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be

suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Education must not simply teach work

it must teach life.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Without electricity,

the air would rot.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.

He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul.

Drawn by its severe harmony,

ravished with its beauty,

he lived in it and had his being there.

Alone in all history,

he estimated the greatness of man.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years.

Then we met.

When you play,

play hard;

when you work,

don't play at all.

I’m not a businessman.

I’m a business,

man.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Life is ten percent what happens to you

and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The struggle of my life created empathy

I could relate to pain,

being abandoned,

having people not love me.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

Common sense is not so common.

I'm not a person who wants to be a star.

I want to be an artist.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

Courage is not the absence of fear,

but the ability to act in spite of it.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged

that all men will ever act correctly,

unless they have a motive to do otherwise.