Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.