I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

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 upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way but for me part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

The nine of us being together is more important than anything else.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.