The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior

1. Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve?2. If there was a solution, would they buy it?3. Would they buy it from us?4. Can we build a solution for that problem?

I love you with all the shadows in the world for eternity.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to START living the life of your dreams.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.