Thinking is not repeating what you are told.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Public education has not produced an educated public.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

Ignorance never settle a question.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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