If there's no struggle, there's 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.

Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you." But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.