A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

I love to swim for miles I could just go back and forth.

Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.

Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.