All what I aimed for, except the Olympic medal, I achieved. That's why I want to start the Usha School of Athletics. I missed an Olympic medal, now I want to ensure that one of my students wins one!

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

I wish I had more patience.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

My mother was a very positive thinker; she was always active, always doing something good.

To be somebody, you must last.

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors--in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria, and even by the democratic tradition!...It is a miracle that the the American black people have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the centuries of hell that they have caught here in white man's heaven!

Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.

Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.