Liberty trains for liberty.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.

You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.