He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

A human being is a deciding being.

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.