If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.