The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.

Peace is more difficult than war.

Fate is a great accident.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

I'm a Pisces - emotional.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.