Harvey Milk

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Hope will never be silent.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

You can make just about anything of your life-anything you will believe or will visualize, anything you will pray for and work for. Look deeply into your mind. Amazing wonders are there. Whatever the situation may be, you can improve it.

Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.

You would worry less about what people think, if you knew how little they did.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Priority is a function of context.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

It’s a blip, not a catastrophe.