I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

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.

A person with victim mentality cannot find himself, his life mission, and go towards his aims

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.