It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.