I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.