Once you read, you will be free forever.

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.

Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

Any peace is better than any war

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.