Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give it.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.