Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

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.

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.