No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.

I like being a writer.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.