Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

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.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.

I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.