We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

It's phenomenal the kind of support Donald Trump has, despite the best efforts to suppress it, and those efforts are being made, I think it's profound, the number of people.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.