Harvey Milk

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

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

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.

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!

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

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us, and a new beauty waiting to be born.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.