. . . 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.

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.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Man is what his dreams are.

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.

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