Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.  

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Well begun is half done.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.