Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

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.

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.

I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

I married her just because she looks like you.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.