The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

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.

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.