If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

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.

Every heart is a universe within its own galaxy that is ready to accommodate many others in her immeasurable depth.

Decision and choices define life.

Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes.

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.

SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN LUCKY...OTHERS ARE LUCKY TO BE BORN...I SAY THE WORLD WAS LUCKY I WAS BORN

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.