It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

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.

Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives.("Wait")

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

When you're young, you don't realize that things are going to pass and things will move and shift.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

Imperfection means perfection hid.