President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Nothing is more important than a good education.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!

Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.