No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

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.

Motivational quotes inspire people to change behaviour. Can you imagine how dramatically the word of God can change lives?

You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence...

Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.

A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.