Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

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.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

if you'e going to do something, darling, then do it all the way.

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.