The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

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.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

You restored me to the concept of home.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

The real difference between men is energy.

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous they love putting people down.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.