The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

Let your greatness bloom.

People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.