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The human race is a race of cowards;

and I am not only marching in that procession

but carrying a banner.

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice

I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Success isn’t about how much money you make,

it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

You’re only as good as your last performance.

I’m a man who likes to work.

I work for work’s sake.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold

if the market shut down for 10 years.

Nations consist of people.

And with their effort,

a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Trust,

but verify.

I’m a very stable genius.

All that I am,

or hope to be,

I owe to my angel mother.