Archived Quotes

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,

it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

As a child of God,

I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Before God we are all equally wise

and equally foolish.

Price is what you pay.

Value is what you get.

The more we value things,

the less we value ourselves.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

My hair grows and grows;

you cannot stop it

that fellow grows,

it grows wild.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

Truth is stranger than fiction

fiction, but it is because

Fiction is obliged to

stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Have a heart that never hardens,

and a temper that never tires,

and a touch that never hurts.

Because a paper has more patience than people.

I’m not a person who likes to be told what to do.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity

until it had ceased to be one.

Change is necessary for progress.

It is curious that physical courage

should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny,

because shiny doesn’t last.

Everything is a compromise.