Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.