The ballot is the only safety.

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.

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

It is nice to touch, it is nice to be touched, but it is so much nicer to touch someone's heart.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.