The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.