I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

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 reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.