They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

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.

The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal

You’re writing someone’s ‘future’ favorite book.

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.