These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

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.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Utilise each moment to achieve what you wish to experience.

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.