I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

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.

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