The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

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.

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.