Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

Mental inertia is death.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotten to the core.

I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

I'm the master of low expectations.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.