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

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

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

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

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.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.