“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” 

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” 

Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” 

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” 

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” 

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

I know why the caged bird sings.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Our distrust is very expensive.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.