Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.