I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.

Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we’ll never stop digging until we find our gold.

When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

I'm constantly changing up my show. It's never the same.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

There are infinite possibilities.