All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.

The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.