Every great dream begins with a dreamer

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Sometimes just the affirmation that a situation sucks can turn a mood around and inspire strength and optimism.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

I agonize over things like this - the order of things, section titles, all this architectural sort of stuff. Takes me years to figure out.

Always trust computer games.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar