A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.