. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

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

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 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.