There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

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.

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

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.

The world made me cold. You made me water. One day we'll be clouds.

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.