At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.