In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

I'm playing the game because I love it. But I'm also playing it for my family. You play for the glory, but you play for your family, too.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.