I had as well be killed running as die standing

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.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

Dating is probably the most important aspect of a single person's life.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.