The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.