I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.

Where are you from? New York?""Weird you picked up on that, " she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.

Its sort of my job to feel good.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.