The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

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.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.

Man is what his dreams are.

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

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

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