Education must not simply teach work - it much teach 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.

Life is the lover's responsibility.

A wise man fights to win but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.

It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.