Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Satan’s chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.

It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….