Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.