The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Anytime you see someone more successful than you are,they are doing something you're not.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success