Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything has its poetry. 94

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.