This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

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.

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.