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

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

Man is what his dreams are.

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

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.