Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

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.

In our world, " said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Self-confidence comes with self-awareness.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.