We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.