Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

[Apple] make nothing in the United States, virtually.

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.