All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

You know which title I like best? I like to be called mother.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?