Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

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.

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

I heard it's nothin new except for someone new but how you s'posed to find the one when anyone'll come with you?

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

People are either born hosts or born guests.