We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I like my coffee the way I like my women: after waiting impatiently in a long line.

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

Temper justice with mercy.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.