Jackie Robinson

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

No matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

People are used to being coddled.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true… Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.