Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

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.

Real Women are Covered to be Discovered in due time

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

Combating climate change requires government policy, and most conservatives hate the idea of more government regulation. Because they hate the prescription, they deny the diagnosis.