In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching movies and making unnecessary phone calls your life is diminishing into vanity.

We crave beauty, like we crave peace.

Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out.

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.