“From what you say, I infer that time is the friend of the person who trains his mind to follow positive thought-habits and the enemy of the person who drifts into negative thought-habits.”

“Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.”

“Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.”

“It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”

“Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.” 

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.

“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.” 

Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I’ve been there.

It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

Indiscriminate action is a form of laziness.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” 

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.” 

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

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.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

This world belongs to the energetic.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.