The cause of war is preparation for war.

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.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

I can conduct better than I count.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.