The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
You got your resolutions. . . We just got reservations.
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman. . . come in the guise of a comic. . . to heal perception by using. . . 'jokes'.
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.