The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.