I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.