The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.