If there is no struggle there is no progress.

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.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

I'm not perfect but I'm learning to be better.