This kiss was hello.It was I've missed you, I've craved you, I've never forgotten you. It was love.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.

Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.