A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.