Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

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.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor.

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.